Perfume quotes

The term perfume comes from the Latin "per fumum", which means "through smoke". It came from the use of oils and aromas, such as incense. It was burnt as offerings to the deceased and to deities. Even today, perfume permeates meditation and prayer in many religious cults.

Perfume was then used for secular purposes, to be in harmony with oneself, to procure pleasure, to give confidence or to seduce. It speaks about oneself, it is the result of a unique alchemy between one's skin and one's perfume. I like to say that it is not the fragrance that perfumes the personne, but the personne perfumes the fragrance.

Here are some quotes I like 

• "Without perfume the skin is mute"
• "Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns" Baudelaire
• "A woman should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed" Coco Chanel
• "The beautiful perfume is the one that gives us a shock" Edmond Roudniska
• "Memory is the perfume of the soul" Georges Sand
• "Scents have no sex. Nothing is forbidden in a perfume as long as it gives pleasure! Jacques Cavallier
• "The glance is often deceptive, not the nose" Philippe Sollers
• "Fragrances are powerful magicians that can transport you through the years you have lived" Helen Keller
• "Entertaining, suffering the noblest of our senses, the search for perfume goes no other way than that of obsession” Colette
• "Perfume is a poem to be breathed in"
• "Perfume is the confessed trace of a passion"
• "Smell is the intelligence of flowers" Henry de Montherlant
• "In the course of time, a woman's perfume is a more moving memory than a photograph of her" Guy de Maupassant

• "Every plant is a lamp. Perfume is the light" Victor Hugo
• "Perfume is the invisible, unforgettable, fashionable accessory that announces your arrival and prolongs your departure" Coco Chanel
• "The gods create scents, men make perfumes" Jean Giono
• "Perfume must be as heavy with meaning as it is light to wear" Paco Rabanne
• "As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume" Charles Baudelaire
• "Perfume is the avowed trace of a passion" Jean Paul Guerlain
• "Perfume is the brother of breath" Yves Saint Laurent
• "A woman without perfume is a woman without a future" Coco Chanel
• "Nothing awakens a memory like a smell" Victor Hugo
• "Two things make women unforgettable, their tears and their perfumes" Sacha Guitry
• "If love is a sin, a good perfume is what drives you to commit it" Jean Paul Guerlain
• "Everything is over when you don't remember your smell" Cecilia Seppia

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